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How do you turn off background refresh. My husband and I have the same phone and just recently switched to iPhones and in my app settings it has the option to turn it off but it’s grey like I’m not allowed to turn it off, any ideas on why it’s doing this???


on my husband phone his background refresh option he can turn of or on, on each app but mine will not allow me to on certain apps it is permanently turned on


how do I fix this?


Posted on Dec 26, 2020 10:17 PM

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Posted on Dec 26, 2020 10:23 PM

Your iPhone may have Screen Time Restrictions set to ON.

Open Settings ➔ Screen Time ➔ Contents & Privacy Restrictions ➔ Background App Activities (Scroll all the way down) : Set this to Allow.


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